Engineering team working on soakage pit to ease flooding near CUL

Sat, 01/18/2014 - 6:48pm

Officials with the Department of Public Works briefed Tualauta faipule, Larry Sanitoa regarding the soakage pits to be constructed in front of Cost-U-Less. In an email, DPW explained that they have changed the design to best fit and still meet the conditions set by Sanitoa in previous meetings, and barricades have been put up at the site as the work is underway.

The contractor has requested the use of a temporary retention area for the road runoff to allow construction at the problem area. The retention area will be located approximately 60 linear feet from the edge of the road and will be further into the lot. The proposal from the contractor for this temporary structure will be sent for the Tualauta faipule's revie